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' SOCIETY
'STATE HISTORICAL
HITT & lomy sT.roi
COLUMBIA, MJ- - lJ"
ST. 1P.-- 3-
70th Year - No. 35 Good Mornhifg! It s Wednesday. On. 2(k 1 971 4 Sections - 40 Pages - 1 5 Cents
Pro-gasificati- on study
endorsed amid opposition
ByJohnSchneller
Mlssourian staff writer
Brushing off opposition in Columbia to a proposed
coal gasification complex as "a tempest in a teapot'
regional energy officials Tuesday agreed to get plans
to construct the plant moving "full speed ahead."
An advisory committee to two Missouri regional
planning commissions endorsed the findings and
credibility of a hotly disputed study which concluded
that the project is feasible. The decision paves the way
for the creation of a "legal corporate entity" to solicit
financing for a far-reachi- ng Phase III study.
Adoption of the study came after an effort by
committee chairman J.H. Lundsted, Columbia's
water and light director, to demonstrate growing
interest in the plant's products failed to materialize.
Columbia and the mid-Misso- uri area lack a broad
base of support for the proposed energy complex,
Wilbur Jenny, a regional officer for the newly formed
U.S. Department of Energy, told about 50 represen-tatives
of government and industry attending
Tuesday's meeting.
While the Green Hills region in north-centr- al
Missouri where one of the two proposed plants
would be constructed has about as broad a base as is
"physically possible," the active interest of large
energy users in mid-Misso- uri is missing, Jenny said.
The absence from the feasibility study of any
evidence of such interest from potential customers has
been one aspect of the study much criticized by op-ponents
of the project.
Lundsted, a member of the Mid-Misso- uri Council of
Governments who chairs the advisory committee,
asked potential industrial users of the plant's gas
products on hand to address the issue.
A representative of A.B. Chance, a manufacturing
firm based in Centralia, stood up. "I don't know about
this coal gasification thing," he said. "It looks like you
have a long way to go."
Lundsted then called on a representative of Farm-land
Industries, an agribusiness cooperative
specializing in fertilizer processing. He, too, ex-pressed
no more than a passing interest in the subject.
And no one responded when Lundsted called the
names of five other Missouri industries. He said af-terward
he had notified the firms of Tuesday's
meeting in hopes of generating additional support for
the project.
Lundsted defended his support of the Phase II study
in the face of allegations by a City Council-appointe- d,
task force that the report is misleading and biased in
favor of the proposed complex. He said the con-troversy
was ' 'a tempest in a teapot.' '
Several mid-Misso- uri towns, including Fayette,
Armstrong and Moberly, have gone on record to
support the proposed complex, he noted.
It may not matter, however, what the public or
prospective industrial users in the mid-Missou- ri area
think. The two proposed plants are separate projects,
Lundsted said, and if one "drops out," promoters will
continue with the other. For now, the Mid-Misso- uri
Council of Governments and the Green Hills Planning
Commission will go ahead with both of them, he ad-ded.
Before some sort of corporate structure is formed by
promoters to continue the project, not even a "bucket
full of money" could be accepted, Lundsted said.
Asked about the prospects of forming such a cor-poration,
which he said would eventually assume
ownership of the complex, he replied, "damn the
torpedos, full speed ahead."
Those were just the words Russ Streich, director of
economic development in the Green Hills region,
wanted to hear. "We need to get this program moving
faster than ever," he said. After more than 200 public
meetings in the Green Hills area during the last four
years, "we still have not heard a discouraging word in
our area," Streich said.
In any case, the committee decided to investigate
the legal angles of a pooling arrangement among
public utilities, municipalities and cooperatives. A
proposed constitutional amendment, to be submitted
to Missouri voters in November, 1978, would allow two
or more political subdivisions to issue revenue bonds
to finance utility and industrial development projects.
Consultant reasserts accuracy
Gasification study feud continues
ByJohnSchneller
Mlssourian staff writer
The feud continues over the credibility of the study
professing the economic viability of the proposed coal
gasification complex.
Jack Daily, of the Kansas City, Kan., consulting
firm of Lute, Daily & Brain, took -- the offensive
Tuesday. At the advisory committee's meeting, he
lashed out at the critical review by a City Council-appointe-d
task force of the $50,000 study.
"I've grown quite weary of the innuendos and direct
accusations that the report is full of inaccuracies,"
Daily said.
"It is not full of inaccuracies," he said twice.
The advisory committee Tuesday embraced the
findings of the report as valid and accurate, recom-mending
that Lutz, Daily & Brain be paid the contract
price.
Daily said four or five additions to the Phase n
report will be released in a few days, but that "very
few" items will be "corrected." The additions make
the plant appear more, not less, feasible, he said.
Daily's statements raised the ire of Marc de Chazal,
an outspoken member of the task force who attended
Tuesday's meeting. The report is "loaded with errors,
but they won't admit. them.". said.de Chazal, a
University chemistry professor.
For example, the study predicts coal prices will
escalate at 7 per cent for the next two decades, when
those same prices have risen 33 per cent the last
several years, de Chazal said. "That's not an arith--
' noetic error, but it's certainly a mistake," he said.
De Chazal also cited what he called "mistakes of
assumptions," "misrepresentation of data" and
"errors of faulty comparison."
Task force members were frustrated further
recently when Lutz, Daily & Brain refused to open for
inspection the files used to compile the report. A task
force request to examine documents and other
references cited in the report was not honored,
"because they'd be too bloody embarrassed, that's
why," de Chazal said.
A summary of the task force's review will find its
way to the federal level, de Chazal predicted, in ad-dition
to the City Council. Giving task force views to
the Mid-Missou- ri Council of Governments which he
believes is dead set on building the complex is "a
waste of time," he said.
More than 20 pages of questions on the study posed
to consultants by task force members spurred the
Missouri Department of Natural Resources to ask
federal energy officials for an extra $15,000 for a
"supplemental contract" to relate the project to
national energy goals and to address further the
plant's socio-econom- ic impact.
Wilbur Jenny, of the new U.S. Department of
Energy, said moving ahead on the project is not
contingent on answering those questions.
Subsidized school lunches land
in the garbage can, report says
By Drew von Bergen
United Press International
WASHINGTON - More than 26
million American youngsters par-ticipated
in the government-subsidize- d
school lunch program
during the past fiscal year, and a
report issued Tuesday showed some
problems exist
Among the problems were the fact
that food on the plates is wasted, both
parents and children are concerned
about menus and lunch supervisors
want to boost prices but fear dropouts
on the program if they do.
The report said the greatest food
waste was in vegetables; that girls
waste more food than boys, and that
buffet lines tend to reduce food waste.
The 13-pa-ge document of the
National Advisory Council on Child
Nutrition was sent to President
Carter.
Assistant Agriculture Secretary
Carol Tucker Forman, who released
the report, said the department was
"committed to making major
changes to improve the nutritional
quality and attractiveness of school
lunches."
The council, comprised of both
department officials and outside
appointees, recommended that in--
Emgight
creased emphasis be given to
nutrition and nutrition education and
that demonstration projects be
conducted to teach school children
the value of foods and the relationship
of nutrition and health.
Congress recently funded such a
program for the first time following a
request by Agrculture Secretary Bob
Bergland.
Regarding food waste, the council
said labor savings in preplated
lunches tended to offset the cost of
greater food waste in such
operations.
It also recommended that because
vegetables were the most wasted
item, more fruit should be offered.
The program was conducted at .
92,367 schools in 1976 with a total 26.4
million children participating at a
federal funding of $2.5 billion.
Some council members said
Congress went too far in amending
the school lunch program to allow
senior high school students to refuse
certain food items scheduled for that
day, even though they must pay the
same price as if they accepted it
"The question was raised why, if
plate waste was the real concern, did
the Congress limit the provisions of
the amendment to senior high schools
since many of the plate waste
problems are to be found in
elementary schools," the report said.
V
FlipPutthoff
Antmmm9 silence
The silence of a quiet, grey autumn afternoon is broken by Todd
Brown, left, and Peter Gardner as they hear the carpet of leaves
crackle under the weight of their bicycle tires.
U.S. to support embargo
of arms to South Africa
N.Y. Times Service
WASHINGTON The United States
reportedly has decided to support the
imposition by the U.N. Security Council
of a mandatory embargo on all arms
sales to South Africa.
The significance of the move would
not be its effect on American arms
shipments to South Africa, which the
United States has banned voluntarily
since 19S3, but in Washington's ac-ceptance
for the first time that the
racial policies of the white government
in Pretoria constitutes a threat to in-ternational
peace and security under
the U.N. charter.
President Carter told an impromptu
news conference in the White House
Rose Garden Tuesday that the ad-ministration
had made a decision about
U.N. action against South Africa and
mat he believed it was "the right
decision," but he declined to say what it
was.
Other officials confirmed, however,
that the administration had decided in
-- priilciple to vote for a Security Council
resolution that would prohibit all
member countries of the United
Nations from transferring arms and
military supplies to South Africa.
The officials said the administration
hoped to persuade other Security
More on South Africa 3A
Council members to accept an initial
time limit on the arms embargo as an
incentive for South Africa to halt the
suppression of black leaders and their
white supporters that precipitated the
current round of U.N. discussions of
sanctions.
If satisfactory language could be
agreed on with black African and other
delegations, the officials said, the
administration would be inclined to
support a Security Council warning of
economic action against South Africa if
it failed to modify its racial policies.
They added, however, that no con-sideration
is being given at present to
United States support for the drastic
economic sanctions against South
Africa that have long been demanded
by black African governments and
other third world countries.
All officials contacted warned that
difficult negotiations lie ahead at the
United Nations about the Security
Council actions that the administration
has now decided in principle to support
at this stage.
Asked if he believed that Andrew
Young, the chief delegate to the United
Nations, could muster sufficient sup-port
for an American approach to the
South African problem that the black
Africans would regard as too moderate
and too limited, an administration
specialist hesitated, then said: "No, I
(See CONSERVATIVES, Page HA)
Average, Not. 1171 Sept 1977
toMtrcfaU77
By Larry King
Mlssocrian staff writer
FBI officials, commenting on a seven
per cent drop in the nation's crime rate
during the first half of 1977, have
suggested mat severe cold kept
criminals off the streets and out of
other peoples' houses.
Columbia Police Sgt Bob Vemer
suggests that the FBI might be reading
its statistics sheets upside down.
Between November 1976 and March
1977, there was an average of 88
burglaries per month in Columbia. But
during September that number
decreased to 56.
Vemer, parodying FBI reasoning,
explains last month's low crime
figures: ''Apparently it was cold as bell
and it snowed."
Last month's burglary losses totaled
$10,415, compared with a $40,404
average for the winter months.
The most dramatic plunge was in the
number of businesses burglarized.
There were 66 commercial burglaries
in September 1976, compared with 19
last month and 16 in August
"I'm proud of what our department
has done," said Vemer. "We had a hell
of a crime problem, let's face it We've
still got a burglary problem, but at least
it's going down."
Vemer said he thinks the recent
decrease is a result of better police-commun- ity
cooperation, and more
public willingness to properly secure
homes and keep watch over absent
neighbors' houses.
"There's more awareness and in-terest
on the part of the people," be
said.
Vemer said he is concerned that
predictions of lower crime rates may
make citizens complacent "and they
stop being aware. You have to get in-volved
and stay involved."
"The crime of burglary is not a
seasonal occupation. It was high in the
winter and it's been going down ever
since."
Another concern is a decreasing
amount of resistance encountered by
local burglars. Police figures show the
average amount of force necessary to
enter a building last month was les3
man that needed during the November
1976 to March 1977 period.
And so, shucking the collective
wisdom of the FBI, Vemer predicted
this winter's crime rate. "It'll probably
stay low until we have a blinding
snowstorm," he said.
Burglary losses j
in Columbia I
Thaaadioldafi I
Average, Not. 1978 Sept WJ
to March 1177
In town--
today
7:30 p,m Boone County Board
of Adjustment, fifth floor,
County-Cit- y Building.
Exhibits
See Sunday's Vibrations
magazine for continuing exhibits.
Movie listings en Page ISA
Ctasfffied 8-1- 1B
Conks CD
N.Y.Steefes 11B
Optocn A
Pee0e MC
Record 12A
Sports C-7-A

' SOCIETY
'STATE HISTORICAL
HITT & lomy sT.roi
COLUMBIA, MJ- - lJ"
ST. 1P.-- 3-
70th Year - No. 35 Good Mornhifg! It s Wednesday. On. 2(k 1 971 4 Sections - 40 Pages - 1 5 Cents
Pro-gasificati- on study
endorsed amid opposition
ByJohnSchneller
Mlssourian staff writer
Brushing off opposition in Columbia to a proposed
coal gasification complex as "a tempest in a teapot'
regional energy officials Tuesday agreed to get plans
to construct the plant moving "full speed ahead."
An advisory committee to two Missouri regional
planning commissions endorsed the findings and
credibility of a hotly disputed study which concluded
that the project is feasible. The decision paves the way
for the creation of a "legal corporate entity" to solicit
financing for a far-reachi- ng Phase III study.
Adoption of the study came after an effort by
committee chairman J.H. Lundsted, Columbia's
water and light director, to demonstrate growing
interest in the plant's products failed to materialize.
Columbia and the mid-Misso- uri area lack a broad
base of support for the proposed energy complex,
Wilbur Jenny, a regional officer for the newly formed
U.S. Department of Energy, told about 50 represen-tatives
of government and industry attending
Tuesday's meeting.
While the Green Hills region in north-centr- al
Missouri where one of the two proposed plants
would be constructed has about as broad a base as is
"physically possible," the active interest of large
energy users in mid-Misso- uri is missing, Jenny said.
The absence from the feasibility study of any
evidence of such interest from potential customers has
been one aspect of the study much criticized by op-ponents
of the project.
Lundsted, a member of the Mid-Misso- uri Council of
Governments who chairs the advisory committee,
asked potential industrial users of the plant's gas
products on hand to address the issue.
A representative of A.B. Chance, a manufacturing
firm based in Centralia, stood up. "I don't know about
this coal gasification thing," he said. "It looks like you
have a long way to go."
Lundsted then called on a representative of Farm-land
Industries, an agribusiness cooperative
specializing in fertilizer processing. He, too, ex-pressed
no more than a passing interest in the subject.
And no one responded when Lundsted called the
names of five other Missouri industries. He said af-terward
he had notified the firms of Tuesday's
meeting in hopes of generating additional support for
the project.
Lundsted defended his support of the Phase II study
in the face of allegations by a City Council-appointe- d,
task force that the report is misleading and biased in
favor of the proposed complex. He said the con-troversy
was ' 'a tempest in a teapot.' '
Several mid-Misso- uri towns, including Fayette,
Armstrong and Moberly, have gone on record to
support the proposed complex, he noted.
It may not matter, however, what the public or
prospective industrial users in the mid-Missou- ri area
think. The two proposed plants are separate projects,
Lundsted said, and if one "drops out," promoters will
continue with the other. For now, the Mid-Misso- uri
Council of Governments and the Green Hills Planning
Commission will go ahead with both of them, he ad-ded.
Before some sort of corporate structure is formed by
promoters to continue the project, not even a "bucket
full of money" could be accepted, Lundsted said.
Asked about the prospects of forming such a cor-poration,
which he said would eventually assume
ownership of the complex, he replied, "damn the
torpedos, full speed ahead."
Those were just the words Russ Streich, director of
economic development in the Green Hills region,
wanted to hear. "We need to get this program moving
faster than ever," he said. After more than 200 public
meetings in the Green Hills area during the last four
years, "we still have not heard a discouraging word in
our area," Streich said.
In any case, the committee decided to investigate
the legal angles of a pooling arrangement among
public utilities, municipalities and cooperatives. A
proposed constitutional amendment, to be submitted
to Missouri voters in November, 1978, would allow two
or more political subdivisions to issue revenue bonds
to finance utility and industrial development projects.
Consultant reasserts accuracy
Gasification study feud continues
ByJohnSchneller
Mlssourian staff writer
The feud continues over the credibility of the study
professing the economic viability of the proposed coal
gasification complex.
Jack Daily, of the Kansas City, Kan., consulting
firm of Lute, Daily & Brain, took -- the offensive
Tuesday. At the advisory committee's meeting, he
lashed out at the critical review by a City Council-appointe-d
task force of the $50,000 study.
"I've grown quite weary of the innuendos and direct
accusations that the report is full of inaccuracies,"
Daily said.
"It is not full of inaccuracies," he said twice.
The advisory committee Tuesday embraced the
findings of the report as valid and accurate, recom-mending
that Lutz, Daily & Brain be paid the contract
price.
Daily said four or five additions to the Phase n
report will be released in a few days, but that "very
few" items will be "corrected." The additions make
the plant appear more, not less, feasible, he said.
Daily's statements raised the ire of Marc de Chazal,
an outspoken member of the task force who attended
Tuesday's meeting. The report is "loaded with errors,
but they won't admit. them.". said.de Chazal, a
University chemistry professor.
For example, the study predicts coal prices will
escalate at 7 per cent for the next two decades, when
those same prices have risen 33 per cent the last
several years, de Chazal said. "That's not an arith--
' noetic error, but it's certainly a mistake," he said.
De Chazal also cited what he called "mistakes of
assumptions," "misrepresentation of data" and
"errors of faulty comparison."
Task force members were frustrated further
recently when Lutz, Daily & Brain refused to open for
inspection the files used to compile the report. A task
force request to examine documents and other
references cited in the report was not honored,
"because they'd be too bloody embarrassed, that's
why," de Chazal said.
A summary of the task force's review will find its
way to the federal level, de Chazal predicted, in ad-dition
to the City Council. Giving task force views to
the Mid-Missou- ri Council of Governments which he
believes is dead set on building the complex is "a
waste of time," he said.
More than 20 pages of questions on the study posed
to consultants by task force members spurred the
Missouri Department of Natural Resources to ask
federal energy officials for an extra $15,000 for a
"supplemental contract" to relate the project to
national energy goals and to address further the
plant's socio-econom- ic impact.
Wilbur Jenny, of the new U.S. Department of
Energy, said moving ahead on the project is not
contingent on answering those questions.
Subsidized school lunches land
in the garbage can, report says
By Drew von Bergen
United Press International
WASHINGTON - More than 26
million American youngsters par-ticipated
in the government-subsidize- d
school lunch program
during the past fiscal year, and a
report issued Tuesday showed some
problems exist
Among the problems were the fact
that food on the plates is wasted, both
parents and children are concerned
about menus and lunch supervisors
want to boost prices but fear dropouts
on the program if they do.
The report said the greatest food
waste was in vegetables; that girls
waste more food than boys, and that
buffet lines tend to reduce food waste.
The 13-pa-ge document of the
National Advisory Council on Child
Nutrition was sent to President
Carter.
Assistant Agriculture Secretary
Carol Tucker Forman, who released
the report, said the department was
"committed to making major
changes to improve the nutritional
quality and attractiveness of school
lunches."
The council, comprised of both
department officials and outside
appointees, recommended that in--
Emgight
creased emphasis be given to
nutrition and nutrition education and
that demonstration projects be
conducted to teach school children
the value of foods and the relationship
of nutrition and health.
Congress recently funded such a
program for the first time following a
request by Agrculture Secretary Bob
Bergland.
Regarding food waste, the council
said labor savings in preplated
lunches tended to offset the cost of
greater food waste in such
operations.
It also recommended that because
vegetables were the most wasted
item, more fruit should be offered.
The program was conducted at .
92,367 schools in 1976 with a total 26.4
million children participating at a
federal funding of $2.5 billion.
Some council members said
Congress went too far in amending
the school lunch program to allow
senior high school students to refuse
certain food items scheduled for that
day, even though they must pay the
same price as if they accepted it
"The question was raised why, if
plate waste was the real concern, did
the Congress limit the provisions of
the amendment to senior high schools
since many of the plate waste
problems are to be found in
elementary schools," the report said.
V
FlipPutthoff
Antmmm9 silence
The silence of a quiet, grey autumn afternoon is broken by Todd
Brown, left, and Peter Gardner as they hear the carpet of leaves
crackle under the weight of their bicycle tires.
U.S. to support embargo
of arms to South Africa
N.Y. Times Service
WASHINGTON The United States
reportedly has decided to support the
imposition by the U.N. Security Council
of a mandatory embargo on all arms
sales to South Africa.
The significance of the move would
not be its effect on American arms
shipments to South Africa, which the
United States has banned voluntarily
since 19S3, but in Washington's ac-ceptance
for the first time that the
racial policies of the white government
in Pretoria constitutes a threat to in-ternational
peace and security under
the U.N. charter.
President Carter told an impromptu
news conference in the White House
Rose Garden Tuesday that the ad-ministration
had made a decision about
U.N. action against South Africa and
mat he believed it was "the right
decision," but he declined to say what it
was.
Other officials confirmed, however,
that the administration had decided in
-- priilciple to vote for a Security Council
resolution that would prohibit all
member countries of the United
Nations from transferring arms and
military supplies to South Africa.
The officials said the administration
hoped to persuade other Security
More on South Africa 3A
Council members to accept an initial
time limit on the arms embargo as an
incentive for South Africa to halt the
suppression of black leaders and their
white supporters that precipitated the
current round of U.N. discussions of
sanctions.
If satisfactory language could be
agreed on with black African and other
delegations, the officials said, the
administration would be inclined to
support a Security Council warning of
economic action against South Africa if
it failed to modify its racial policies.
They added, however, that no con-sideration
is being given at present to
United States support for the drastic
economic sanctions against South
Africa that have long been demanded
by black African governments and
other third world countries.
All officials contacted warned that
difficult negotiations lie ahead at the
United Nations about the Security
Council actions that the administration
has now decided in principle to support
at this stage.
Asked if he believed that Andrew
Young, the chief delegate to the United
Nations, could muster sufficient sup-port
for an American approach to the
South African problem that the black
Africans would regard as too moderate
and too limited, an administration
specialist hesitated, then said: "No, I
(See CONSERVATIVES, Page HA)
Average, Not. 1171 Sept 1977
toMtrcfaU77
By Larry King
Mlssocrian staff writer
FBI officials, commenting on a seven
per cent drop in the nation's crime rate
during the first half of 1977, have
suggested mat severe cold kept
criminals off the streets and out of
other peoples' houses.
Columbia Police Sgt Bob Vemer
suggests that the FBI might be reading
its statistics sheets upside down.
Between November 1976 and March
1977, there was an average of 88
burglaries per month in Columbia. But
during September that number
decreased to 56.
Vemer, parodying FBI reasoning,
explains last month's low crime
figures: ''Apparently it was cold as bell
and it snowed."
Last month's burglary losses totaled
$10,415, compared with a $40,404
average for the winter months.
The most dramatic plunge was in the
number of businesses burglarized.
There were 66 commercial burglaries
in September 1976, compared with 19
last month and 16 in August
"I'm proud of what our department
has done," said Vemer. "We had a hell
of a crime problem, let's face it We've
still got a burglary problem, but at least
it's going down."
Vemer said he thinks the recent
decrease is a result of better police-commun- ity
cooperation, and more
public willingness to properly secure
homes and keep watch over absent
neighbors' houses.
"There's more awareness and in-terest
on the part of the people," be
said.
Vemer said he is concerned that
predictions of lower crime rates may
make citizens complacent "and they
stop being aware. You have to get in-volved
and stay involved."
"The crime of burglary is not a
seasonal occupation. It was high in the
winter and it's been going down ever
since."
Another concern is a decreasing
amount of resistance encountered by
local burglars. Police figures show the
average amount of force necessary to
enter a building last month was les3
man that needed during the November
1976 to March 1977 period.
And so, shucking the collective
wisdom of the FBI, Vemer predicted
this winter's crime rate. "It'll probably
stay low until we have a blinding
snowstorm," he said.
Burglary losses j
in Columbia I
Thaaadioldafi I
Average, Not. 1978 Sept WJ
to March 1177
In town--
today
7:30 p,m Boone County Board
of Adjustment, fifth floor,
County-Cit- y Building.
Exhibits
See Sunday's Vibrations
magazine for continuing exhibits.
Movie listings en Page ISA
Ctasfffied 8-1- 1B
Conks CD
N.Y.Steefes 11B
Optocn A
Pee0e MC
Record 12A
Sports C-7-A